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Surfer Blood will release a new album early next year.
'Snowdonia' is due to arrive on February 3 via Joyful Noise Recordings and is the band's first album without guitarist and founding member Thomas Fekete, who died in May following a battle with cancer.
Joining frontman John Paul Pitts and drummer Tyler Schwarz for a new line up are guitarist Michael McCleary and bassist Lindsey Mills.
Discussing their new song, Six Flags In F Or G, with Noisey, who premiered it, Pitts said:
'Six Flags…' is unlike anything we've done before. When I was writing it I was listening to a lot of Swell Maps, Can, and The Breeders, all bands that Thom got me into. Even in his absence his tastes and sensibilities continue to influence my writing. We recorded the drums, bass and main guitars at a studio in Miami on an old Studer tape machine, we recorded everything in the red to get some analog saturation on all the basic tracks. Then we spent a night in Michael's warehouse recording guitar overdubs. We used a lot of pedals and effects: there's an amp drop, an octave pedal, and even a wah pedal in the second half. We were going for the guitar tone from T. Rex's 'Monolith' and I think we got pretty close."
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